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(07/23/2013) - Florent Amodio, the 2011 European champion, has left Nikoli Morozov, his coach of more than three years, and begun training with Katia Krier, the French newspaper L'Equipe reported Tuesday.

"This is a divorce," Amodio told the paper.

According to the article, Amodio was to join Morozov in New York but wound up meeting his coach in Los Angeles instead. After just three days there, a frustrated Amodio decided it was time for a change.

Since returning to France, Amodio has trained in Lyon and attended a national team training camp in Vaujany. There, he started working with Krier, who has also trained former world champion Brian Joubert and France's top lady, Maé Bérénice Méité.

"Katia took me in. She did a great job," Amodio said. "Technically, I even got back my quad toe loop."

The arrangement with Krier appears to only be a temporary one, however, as Amodio said he will look for another coach to help him prepare for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. He mentioned he has inquired about the possibility of working with 2002 Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin.